Arvind Rajagopal

Arvind Rajagopal is Associate Professor of Media Studies at New York University. His book Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India (Cambridge, 2001) won the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize from the Association of Asian Studies for 2003.

Gujarats successful experiment

The Gujarat experiment is a success, declared Ashok Singhal, after the massacre of over 2000 Muslims in Gujarat and the election of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He

By Arvind Rajagopal

/ 20 Mar 2003

Real and imagined enemies

At the Times Square subway station yesterday afternoon, an African-American woman was striding up and down the platform, shouting angrily, ‘Repent for your sins! Repent for your sins!’ She might

By Arvind Rajagopal

/ 14 Sep 2001

Arvind Rajagopal

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Real and imagined enemies

Gujarats successful experiment